{"id":682,"date":"2021-02-27T09:03:54","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T17:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/?p=682"},"modified":"2021-03-11T09:05:42","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T17:05:42","slug":"leavitt-bill-to-expand-education-opportunities-for-incarcerated-people-passes-state-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/2021\/02\/27\/leavitt-bill-to-expand-education-opportunities-for-incarcerated-people-passes-state-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Leavitt bill to expand education opportunities for incarcerated people passes state House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The state House voted 96-2 Thursday to pass a strong bipartisan bill from Rep. Mari Leavitt (D-University Place) to create pathways from prison to postsecondary education for people who are incarcerated. By expanding access from prison to postsecondary and apprenticeship education, HB 1044 would invest in a workforce that wants to contribute to their communities, lower recidivism rates, improve public safety and save taxpayer dollars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state House voted 96-2 Thursday to pass a strong bipartisan bill from Rep. Mari Leavitt (D-University Place) to create pathways from prison to postsecondary education for people who are incarcerated. By expanding access from prison to postsecondary and apprenticeship education, HB 1044 would invest in a workforce that wants to contribute to their communities, &hellip; <a class=\"more\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thesubtimes.com\/2021\/02\/27\/leavitt-bill-to-expand-education-opportunities-for-incarcerated-people-passes-state-house\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}